{"id":33551,"date":"2012-10-25T17:26:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=33551"},"modified":"2012-10-25T17:52:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T21:52:28","slug":"microsoft-announces-windows-8-surface-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/10\/25\/microsoft-announces-windows-8-surface-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces Windows 8, Surface tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/en-US\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33558 aligncenter\" title=\"MicrosoftSurfaceWindows8-10-25-12\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MicrosoftSurfaceWindows8-10-25-12.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft announces Windows 8 and Surface tablet\" width=\"547\" height=\"272\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MicrosoftSurfaceWindows8-10-25-12.jpg 547w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MicrosoftSurfaceWindows8-10-25-12-150x74.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/microsoft-set-unveil-windows-8-152901697.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Microsoft unveils Windows 8, Surface tablet<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from finance.yahoo.com\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Microsoft Corp launched its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet on Thursday in a bid to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple Inc and Google Inc in mobile computing.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve reimagined Windows and we&#8217;ve reimagined the whole PC industry,&#8221; Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer told Reuters Television.\u00a0 Windows 8 devices and the company&#8217;s new Surface tablet, which challenges Apple&#8217;s popular iPad head on, go on sale at midnight on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204530504578078743616727514.html\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 8 Test: Courting Consumers<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from WSJ.com by Shira Ovide<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The software giant on Thursday formally introduced the touch-oriented overhaul of the operating system that powers nine out of every 10 computers in the world and goes on sale Friday. Microsoft&#8217;s new Windows 8 is widely viewed as a test of whether the PC-era kingpin can become a factor in new-wave mobile devices\u2014not just tablets but convertible devices that can operate in clamshell or slate-style modes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. Microsoft unveils Windows 8, Surface tablet &#8212; from finance.yahoo.com\/Reuters Excerpt: NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Microsoft Corp launched its new Windows 8 operating system and Surface tablet on Thursday in a bid to revive interest in its flagship product and regain ground lost to Apple Inc and Google Inc in mobile computing.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;ve reimagined Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[391,216,245,5,309],"tags":[759,680,67,567,721,748],"class_list":["post-33551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-microsoft","category-mobile-technologies","category-multi-touch","category-platforms","tag-human-computer-interaction-hci","tag-microsoft","tag-mobile-technology","tag-multi-touch","tag-platforms","tag-tablets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33551"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33561,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33551\/revisions\/33561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}